Archive for August, 2007
Well, everyone has heard about WotLK expansion, and all the new zany content. But let’s be honest folks, most of the players will skip out on half the content to zip through 80. So it seems that a lot of hard work may go unnoticed. But never fear, that’s why we here at Warcraft Legion have a gargantuan imagination! I propose in this article a few ideas that may help make certain aspects of the game fun.
Let’s take for example Arena. Everyone loves Arena! Crazed out epics, quality teamwork, and reading those funny team names at the end of the match. Wouldn’t it be even more entertaining to add a “Spectator” option? In essence, going in with a group of 10 in a 5vs5 match, but only 5 battle and the other 5 are in the stands watching your foes fall by your feet, cheering you on. Or maybe add an event that those 5 in the spectator would race to a certain obstacle, accomplish that goal, and give some sort of buff to those fighting, after defeating the other 5 spectators. Taking it even further, some sort of memorization games, like one of the dailies in Og’rila. Or pushing some sort of lever or button when the enemy stands in a certain place and fall to their death. The ideas could infinite! But enough about Arena: How about dancing?
You always see players dancing in town, while you’re out doing quests, or even if they’re just AFK. Now imagine some sort of dome structure, with lights in the middle shining upon a wooden stage. Some sort of crazy music plays, and you start dancing. Now the same old dances everyone comes with wouldn’t do. You would have to be transformed into something out of the ordinary, while dancing to the music, and stepping forward and strafing from side to side. Making it even crazier, would be the option to press certain keys to complete the dance move and glance at the audience while they cheer you on! After achieving a certain score, you may get points for the competition and buy some gear to make your character look hideous, funny, scary…you choose!
One last idea I would like to mention would have to be personal homes. Picture yourself, a proud homeowner in WoW. Adding some sort of architecture profession in the game, crafting homes with certain reagents and a forge, then selling it on the AH. Build your home next to town if you wish, or next to an instance in which you would like to camp. You would be able to name your home, design exterior, colors, etc. Of course, you would have to pay a certain fee every month. Adding paintings on the wall, choosing the style of your furniture, or adding a Guild Hall, to where all the guildies hang out, and store their stuff. This game would be much more amazing with this option. Yes, it would take a lot of server space, time, and money to make this available. But it would definitely make this game more interesting.
Do you have luminous ideas to make WoW a memorable game? Feel free to share some insight on what you would like to be added, or what you want to see 3 patches from now!
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Remember that first time you stepped outside of city boundaries, onto a contestant part of the region? Let us indulge in reminiscence the first time you saw that ill-mannered, red named, corpse-camping Allie/Horde. Your heart pounded through your chest, your fingers stiff as yesterday’s toast, and your lips quivered as you mutter to yourself “What do I do?” You just stand there, both staring at each other, planning each other’s next move. Then it happened, it was over before you even realized it had started. Whether you won or lost, you cherished that moment to be your first PvP encounter. It’s sad to see that things are different now, and that it was a thing of the past.
Nowadays, PvP has changed for the worse. Whether you’re Alliance or Horde, you’re always going to find those people that won’t want to do crud for a single match of fun PvP. “Eh how many are there?” or “Are they camping you?” and my all time favorite “Can’t right now, questing.” What happened to the good ‘ole Alliance vs. Horde, no matter the numbers. Fighting and defending your stronghold for fun, honor, and respect. Not because there’s a reward item in the end. I know every time I walk around Shattrath City, I get plenty of waves from the opposing faction who has battled with me. That feeling is way better than and reward or silly loot items. Nonetheless, PvP in general has been outplayed to a new extreme. There are still plenty of people out there that think like I do, but I just keep running into the wrong crowd.
How about your first experience with PvP? Did you think it was just as fun as everyone had mentioned, or was it just a method of driving you mad and smashing your fists into your keyboard while screaming “Hulk smash!” Did you stand tall in victory when you took on your challenger, or did you have no choice but to back off?
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We have all heard about the new expansion Wrath of the Lich King, and it’s accompanied by the new “Death Knight” feature. Many seem to be anxious about it, as well as myself. The fact remains that it is still a touchy subject. Just like in Star Wars Galaxies, and unlocking Jedi profession in the old days rather than making it a starting profession, once you unlock it you have to work at it. Although in SWG, you were able to unlock Jedi on that same character. From the facts that Blizzard gave us, you will have to start a semi-new character (40-50 is being rumored).
Once, you unlock your DK, what happens to your character that you’ve been working so hard at? All those countless hours spent grinding, questing for reputation, and farming for epics…what now? Leave him to be rusted and sold for scraps? It seems that once you unlock your DK character, you have no more use for your old character. Some may try to juggle both characters, while still trying to level their DK. Next, when even more features are unveiled, it will give you even more reason to stay logged on your DK. I for one, would love to unlock DK, but make that feature available on the same character!
I have spent way too many hours to make a mediocre Lvl 50ish DK. So from raising the skill cap level to 80, then regrinding your character from 70 to 80, followed by a new character, let’s just say Lvl 50. Regrind your newly crowned DK from 50 to 80! Do the math, fellow Azerothians!
70 to 80 = 10 Levels; 50 to 80 = 30 Levels; total of 40 Levels to have a Lvl 80 DK!
With all these new features coming out in WotLK, I will be surely exploring, questing, and experimenting with the newly added content. Whether it be scourging through the fortress of Grim Batol, or trying to get the very first flight path in Northrend, I will try to enjoy the game as if it was my first time playing. But I will try and hold off on the DK. Do you think grinding to DK would be a worthy success, or just a waste of game time? What would you do? Do you think it’s a good idea for the extra character?
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